--- title: EP205: CPU vs GPU vs TPU | daily.dev description: A system design refresher covering five topics: the architectural differences between CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs and when to use each; how OAuth 2 Authorization Code... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ep205-cpu-vs-gpu-vs-tpu-joetqfxnc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: EP205: CPU vs GPU vs TPU | daily.dev og:description: A system design refresher covering five topics: the architectural differences between CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs and when to use each; how OAuth 2 Authorization Code... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ep205-cpu-vs-gpu-vs-tpu-joetqfxnc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JoEtqFXnc.png og:image:alt: EP205: CPU vs GPU vs TPU og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # EP205: CPU vs GPU vs TPU **[ByteByteGo](https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A system design refresher covering five topics: the architectural differences between CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs and when to use each; how OAuth 2 Authorization Code Flow with PKCE and Client Credentials Flow work; how distributed tracing works using OpenTelemetry; a deep dive into GPU internal architecture including Streaming Multiprocessors, warp schedulers, CUDA cores, and memory hierarchy; and four practical API Gateway use cases including rate limiting, auth centralization, request aggregation, and multi-client versioning. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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